YouGov suppressed polling in last few weeks of the 2017 general election campaign because it was too positive about Labour, a senior former employee has said.
Chris Curtis, a former political research manager, said “everybody panicked at the backlash” to a YouGov poll suggesting there could be a hung parliament, and the firm subsequently drew back from publishing some data that showed Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour doing well. YouGov denies the allegation.
